FYI: Russian Corpora, Fulbright Scholar

Author:

Dr.
Elisabeth Seitz

FYI Body:

DEAR COLLEAGUES,

THE DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES AT THE UNIVERSITYOF TUEBINGEN, GERMANY, AND PROJECT B1 OF SFB 441 ARE PLEASED TOANNOUNCE THE FIRST RELEASE OF THE ONLINE QUERYABLE TUEBINGEN RUSSIANCORPORA. THE QUERY INTERFACE, AS WELL AS INFORMATION ABOUT THE CORPUSAND THE CORPUS PROJECT CAN BE ACCESSED ON THE WWW AT URL:

HTTP://WWW.SFB441.UNI-TUEBINGEN.DE/B1/KORPORA.HTML

AS A START, THE TUEBINGEN RUSSIAN CORPORA CONTAIN THE UPPSALA CORPUSOF MODERN RUSSIAN TEXTS. IT PROVIDES A CGI INTERFACE TO THE CORPUSFILES, WHICH ALLOWS KEYWORD SEARCHING WITH WHOLE WORDS AND REGULAREXPRESSIONS IN PERL. THE INTERFACE DISPLAYS THE QUERY RESULTS WITHCYRILLIC ENCODING (KOI8-R OR WINDOWS CODEPAGE 1251) OR LATINTRANSLITERATION, PROVIDES FREQUENCY COUNTS AND, IF SELECTED,CONTEXTUAL OUTPUT AND EXACT BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOURCES.

IN THE FUTURE, WE PLAN TO PROVIDE ANNOTATED CORPORA AND ADD TO THETUEBINGEN RUSSIAN CORPORA A COLLECTION OF TEXT TYPES AS COMPLETE ANDREPRESENTATIVE AS POSSIBLE, WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE FREE OF CHARGE FORRESEARCH PURPOSES. CONTRIBUTIONS ARE WELCOME!

I'M LOOKING FOR SOMEONE WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED IN HOSTING A FULBRIGHSCHOLAR FROM KAZAKSTAN. HER RESEARCH INTERESTS INCLUDE PRAGMATICS OFRUSSIAN PARTICLES, RUSSIAN SOCIOLINGUISTICS, AND CREOLIZATION OFRUSSIAN IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE FORMER SU.

IF ANYONE ON THIS LIST IS INTERESTED IN MAKING CONTACT WITH HER BYEMAIL, OR HAS ANY ADVICE ON HOW SHE MIGHT GO ABOUT FINDING A HOST,PLEASE RESPOND TO ME AT ARISHKA@BJT.NET.